The Umuryango Center of Technology in Gitarama, Rwanda provides housing, education, and IT vocational training to a community of orphans. UCT houses 50 orphans a year, educating at least 70 others.
With 820,000 children orphaned by the 1994 genocide (1/8 of its population), Rwanda's scars are healing slowly. UCT will offer free primary education as well as vocational training in IT to those children. By empowering the most marginalized children in Rwanda, we allow them to secure livelihoods in the growing IT sector as well as allowing them to contribute to the reconstruction of Rwanda.
Bringing internet access to Gitarma and its orphans allows them to receive hands-on training in IT. In addition to IT training, UCT will run an internet café out of its computer labs, allowing the program to eventually achieve self-sustainability.
This project will allow 50 orphans each year to participate in Rwanda's growing IT sector. By giving these children a chance for livelihoods in an expanding market, we can keep them from falling into the despair that plagues so many orphans.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
